Building a Real-time Two-player "Words in a Word" game with Node.js and Socket.io

Links: Live Demo, Github Repository Over the weekend I was working on Node.js and socket.io. I managed to develop boilerplate game app. Its a two-player word-game in which both players have to find words from a given word. The scores are calculated by finding the length of the words. The player with the maximum score wins. Here is a screenshot: Lets get started with the code Setting up the app We build the app using the Express framework, and socket.io. To create a new express app use the following command in the shell: express new <app_name> Here are a list of

There has been a buzz about NodeJS in the recent past. Javascript on the serverside? You gotta be kidding me right! Well NodeJS is “a set of bindings to the V8 javascript Virtual Machine. It allows one to script programs that do IO in javascript” I have been digging into it over the past few days. Before starting off learning I wanted to know whether its worth the effort. I mean we have so many options when it comes to server side scripting. Theres PHP, Ruby On Rails, Django on Python and so many other alternatives. But what seperates Node